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Google this month expects to release its largest smartphone, intensifying competition in the fast-growing market for super-sized mobile devices known as phablets, according to three people familiar with the situation.

The new phone — code-named Shamu after a killer whale — will have a 5.9-inch screen, a high-resolution display and be sold under the Nexus brand, two of the people said. Motorola Mobility, the phone maker that Google is selling to China’s Lenovo Group Ltd., is manufacturing the phone, the people added. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment.

The new phone will be larger than Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus, which is 5.5 inches, and the Samsung Galaxy Note, the first truly successful phablet, which is 5.7 inches. Google plans to release a new version of its Android mobile-operating system at the same time. Read More »

As Ellen DeGeneres had her big moment with an epic selfie during the Oscars Awards that got a record-high number of retweets on Twitter, Samsung Electronics also got a slice of fame.

DeGeneres took the widely tweeted group selfie with a bunch of Hollywood celebrities using what looked like Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 smartphone-tablet, which, according to some reports, was provided as a part of the company’s sponsorship for the show.

Samsung wasn’t immediately able to confirm whether the company’s mobile devices were distributed for the attendees to use during the show. Read More »

Smartphones screens have been growing steadily, but Apple has taken a more conservative approach, not rushing in with bigger displays. It has emphasized the importance of a screen that can be manipulated with one hand and stayed with the 4-inch display – seemingly Lilliputian when compared to Samsung’s 5-inch Galaxy S4 and 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 3 – in its latest iPhone 5S and 5C.

Now, Apple is working on two new iPhones with larger displays, according to people familiar with the matter. It is looking at one model that’s larger than 4.5-inches, measured diagonally, and a second version that is greater than 5-inches, these people said. Read More »

Just a few months after denying that it boosted benchmark stats for one of its gadgets, Samsung Electronics Co. is facing the same doubts, this time over the performance of the new Galaxy Note 3.

A tech website that ran tests on the Note 3 says stat boosters may have been at work, making the smartphone perform up to 20% better than normal when running benchmark applications.Ars Technica reported that the CPU used in the U.S. version of the Galaxy Note 3 treats a benchmarking app differently from a normal app, triggering the phone’s chipset to run at a faster-than-normal speed under test runs. Read More »

Samsung Electronics Co.’s newly unveiled Galaxy Gear smartwatch wasn’t the flexible device that gadget lovers had imagined. But the South Korean giant seems set on more innovations that could help it gain an advantage over close rivals Apple Inc. and Google Inc. Just don’t expect these devices to hit the market anytime soon.

A smartwatch with completely flexible screens–as suggested by designs in Samsung’s patent filing to Korean authorities earlier this year–may be announced “someday,” said Lee Young-hee, the executive vice president at Samsung’s mobile unit. Read More »

Samsung Electronics Co. has taken the wraps off the Galaxy Note 3, a phablet device many analysts had touted as a potential rescuer of the company’s slowing smartphone sales.

But other than a basic upgrade to the microprocessor, screen resolution and size, and a better functioning stylus pen, it looks much like a normal smartphone on the streets with a big screen of 5.7 inches. Samsung’s previous Note II had a screen size of 5.5 inches.

The application processor, known as the brain chip that powers the phone, matches the one on the Galaxy S4 flagship smartphone. It has a quad-core 2.3 gigahertz processor though it’s faster than the Note’s previous model that ran on a 1.6 GHz processor. Read More »

With the release of its Galaxy Gear smart watch, Samsung Electronics Co. is betting that consumers will be willing to pay up for a second device that provides some of the functionality of a smartphone — without having to reach into their pockets or purses.

Many people already have a hard time putting away their smartphones, giving them an exalted place at the dinner table and the pillow’s edge. But Samsung sees an unfulfilled niche market for a $299 device that makes some of the functions of its smartphones available on your wrist.

Yes, there’s a camera. There’s a weather application. There’s even a step-counting pedometer and S Voice, a voice-activated analog similar to Apple Inc.’s Siri. But this isn’t a device for sending e-mails, downloading music or conducting most tasks requiring more than two fingers at a time Read More »